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Big 12 football analysis

Month: September 2017

Patterson’s solution? Get faster

September 29, 2017 by ianaboyd

Over at Football Study Hall I broke down some of the major themes I noted from TCU’s victory in Stillwater over the Oklahoma State Cowboys. TCU seems to be this year’s West Virginia for me, where I just didn’t buy in to the potential for reasons relating largely to a failure to think carefully enough … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Kavontae Turpin, Mach Snell, MOTP, TCU Horned Frogs

Purdue is ahead of schedule

September 20, 2017 by ianaboyd

Over at SB Nation I break down how Jeff Brohm has the Boilermakers on track to make noise sooner than later in the Big 10 west. Nebraska is folding like a cheap tent, which was predictable given their turmoil from a year ago and the graduation of Tommy Armstrong, Jr. Minnesota is responding well to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 10 football Tagged: Big 10 Football, Purdue Boilermakers

OU’s wishbone innovation

September 15, 2017 by ianaboyd

Barry Switzer’s big innovation in college football, besides foregoing discipline in order to keep star players on the field, was using more of a burner at fullback to give the dive runs in his wishbone offense a little more explosiveness. Lincoln Riley stumbled upon something sorta similar when he used Dmitri Flowers on play-action tosses … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Theoretical ramblings Tagged: Barry Switzer, Dmitri Flowers, FB POP pass, Oklahoma Sooners, Texas Longhorns, Winston Dimel, Wishbone

So about that Oklahoma defense…

September 14, 2017 by ianaboyd

My chronicling of the Sooner defense over the offseason was fairly detailed as it seemed to me likely that Lincoln Riley would figure out how to build another top offense around Baker Mayfield and a loaded OL, but the defense was very much in question. The spring game showed a team that was very young … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Big Game Bob, Caleb Kelly, Cautious Mike, DJ Ward, Emmanuel Beal, Jordan Thomas, Kenneth Murray, Lincoln Riley, Neville Gallimore, Obo Okoronkwo, Ohio State Buckeyes, Oklahoma Sooners, Parnell Motley, Senor Lampkin, Steven Parker

Deep diving with the B12’s frontrunners

September 8, 2017 by ianaboyd

I wanted to pass along a few things I noticed from two of the teams that demonstrated that they’re actually ready to contend for the Big 12 title, Kansas State and Oklahoma State. I think Oklahoma demonstrated they are also in that group but I gave some notes on their matchup with Ohio State last … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Big daddy Gundy, Britton Abbott, Byron Pringle, Isaiah Harris, James Washington, Justice Hill, Kansas State Wildcats, Mason Rudolph, Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Tyron Johnson

Impressions from week one in the Big 12

September 5, 2017 by ianaboyd

Texas isn’t back but pre-Briles Baylor is! That’s probably harsh, I’ve been saying all along that Matt Rhule would likely take his lumps in year one while working to achieve the macro-level culture change and roster reconstruction necessary to win “his way.” I did think that they’d handle Liberty without difficulty but looking back it … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Texas Longhorns

Meanwhile, just outside of Texas

September 5, 2017 by ianaboyd

LSU shut the freaking door on BYU’s defense this last weekend while fielding a defense of Houston kids. I broke down how they mixed an old school 4-3 Under defense with a 2-4-5 nickel sub-package to wreak havoc on BYU’s pro-stylings on offense over at Saturday Down South. I think their “confuse and clobber” offense … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, SEC football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Houston metroplex, LSU Tigers, Texas A&M Fighting Aggies, Texas Longhorns

5 most interesting breakout candidates in the Big 12

September 2, 2017 by ianaboyd

Most interesting to me, at least. I think these guys are high upside athletes that could be about to breakout and consequently have a huge impact on this coming season. Let’s begin… No. 5: Blake Lynch, Baylor I was surprised when Blake Lynch was absolutely nowhere on Baylor’s depth chart. At 6-3, 205 he’s a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Alex Barnes, Baylor Bears, Blake Lynch, Kansas State Wildcats, Kyzir White, Malik Jefferson, Mark Andrews, Oklahoma Sooners, Texas Longhorns, West Virginia Mountaineers

Scouting Ohio State

September 1, 2017 by ianaboyd

I learned a few things watching Ohio State live against Indiana. It’d be worth rewatching the game to study their passing game more but I feel pretty confident with this initial assessment. Here are a few scattered thoughts I had about the Buckeyes in terms of how they match up to the Sooners. The Buckeyes … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 10 football, Big 12 football Tagged: Ohio State Buckeyes, Oklahoma Sooners, QB split zone, Scouting report

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